I've just made a pretty significant enhancement to speed up the game. Could you guys try it out and tell me what frame rates you get when flying out relatively alone in space or when you get in the middle of some ships fighting? Both extremes are useful to have results for. Thanks!

Quick problem I just had. I was going though the tutorial and I think I managed to remove my weapons on the trading screen. When I later tried to fire the primary weapon in the tutorial the game crahed back to the desktop.

Wild! I just put a new update with many bug fixes, check HERE to see the list. One of the improvements involves a conversion from Frame to JFrame and also properly accelerating the Graphics context so hopefully that'll be enough to fix the problem you were having Give it a shot now!

- This isn't my type of game. Its not bad, its just not preference, so its hard to get into. Take comments with that in mind.

- The scrollbars on menus and such look nice. The problem is that you can't actually drag them like you are used to in normal OS guis (linux, mac, win) I'd expect to be able to click on the slider and drag it up and down. This kept getting me into 'trouble' and I'd miss what the rest of the text was, because I kept trying to drag.

- The app had no problem going full screen for me.

- I still don't prefer the system for buying and selling, but unless others start really giving you feedback on this, it might just be me.

- I couldn't figure out how much money I had. Maybe I just missed it. When I moused over things to buy and sell, I kept expecting to see how much they cost, rather than how much I'd have if I purchase/sold the item.

- Graphics are excellent (as all of your projects are)

- Targeting might need a bit more work. I was facing someone directly, with a red X on them shooting missiles and they just flew straight off to the side. It appeared they were going after someone offscreen.

- I felt way outmanuevered when trying to battle other ships. They obviously have a much better command of flying a spaceship than I do.

- A good background track would be nice, maybe change it relative to the area your in.

Thanks for checking! The targetting bug makes it sound like you may have a cached jar because I actually fixed that very but (or thought I did) in the last update... did you make sure it downloaded the latest? For me I always have to download applications twice (if I've played before) before Webstart realizes there's an update

Background track... I like the idea, I'll see what I can do

I'm going to change the method of displaying money in the menu next. Right now, when you're not selecting something you can buy/sell, your current cash is shown. When you are selecting something you can buy/sell, it shows how much money you'll have after making the transaction. I'm going to change that so that it shows exactly how much each item is worth and see if it makes things more clear.

I'll take another serious look at the jump map. I've had other comments saying it's slow so I need to give it more time to figure out what I've missed, because there's no reason it should be so slow.

Thanks!! Yeah I think I'm pushing the limits of Java2D there with that opening menu. Essentially thanks to the way I cache the menu should be drawing 2 managed images at most, most of the time just 1 (1 for the menu, 1 for the highlight image). However when you first load the game the background shows a live game for a "demo" so that really hogs the CPU with all that extra rendering... however in an actual game, when you load the menu that game is paused so the background is cached and the menu's speed goes right back up.

Soon hopefully I'll have an option to use OpenGL in which case if that's available to you you could probably benefit from it and get the menu speed right back up!

Could some of you guys running Linux check out the game? I've had one friend on Linux try the game only to have the window not even show up.... that's not good news. If this can be confirmed by you guys I'll need help figuring out what's wrong. Thanks!

Could some of you guys running Linux check out the game? I've had one friend on Linux try the game only to have the window not even show up.... that's not good news. If this can be confirmed by you guys I'll need help figuring out what's wrong. Thanks!

Works fine on Knoppix 2.78 here on a PII-400/512MB/GF2MX/Java 1.4.2. I was running it in 640*480 and while it was very laggy in the menu (around 10fps), it gave me around 30-40fps in the game itself.

Could some of you guys running Linux check out the game? I've had one friend on Linux try the game only to have the window not even show up.... that's not good news. If this can be confirmed by you guys I'll need help figuring out what's wrong. Thanks!

Works great here, cca 100 - 120 FPS, in full resolution. Suse9.2, jre5.0. I can see it loads some ogg files during startup, but other than clicks on menus, I cant hear no other sound during a gameplay.

Aaaah! I discovered Rimscape only now! Great, I'm soo glad to see something so polished and entertaining made in Java. I am especially satisfied with movement, the way you handle it. Your physics professor should be very happy with that . No, seriosly, movement is very realistic and I liked it. Being astrophysicist myself, I have several ideas for game put in some universe for some time now. Rimscape is real motivator! Good work.p.s. i'm not shure always about credits I owe in menus...

i'm gonna be honest with you. The menus look and work sweet but the zoom thing has to be implemented. You can see too little of the space. It's important that you keep it simple for a person starting for the first time so you don't loose a gamer. Or strongly suggest to take the tutorial because the movement is hard and "some" people skip tutorials out of impatience Also if your game is going to be strong on the story line, you might want to consider doing it in full 3d like the old school "elite"? It would be a big jump, but space games are i believe easier to implement in 3D than let's say a game such as doom. But it seems like a rounded up project. Good job!

Here's a new system for ya'. I'm running one of the iMac 20" Intel Core Duos, and the game runs fine, allowing that I run in Java2D mode. I get around 27+ FPS running fullscreen at 1680x1050. ^_^ I'm gonna just try and get an Intel build of the LWJGL for me to try it with OpenGL.

Awesome! Thanks for trying it I'm not sure why you couldn't run it with OpenGL on your Mac, but hopefully in a future release you won't have problems

I plan on having an open beta within a couple weeks. I already have a private one going on (only a few people looking at it right now) that's playable but still missing some key elements like a couple of menu's and a local game saving system.

The new GUI is coming along well and I believe you all will really like it!

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